FILE - Stephen Corey Bryant listens as his defense attorney presents his closing arguement during Bryant's sentencing hearing on Tuesday at the Sumter County Court House. Bryant plead guilty to three ...

A South Carolina killer who taunted police by writing a message in blood after murdering three men in a week has become the third inmate executed by firing squad in the state this year. Stephen Corey ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A man on death row in South Carolina who taunted investigators with messages written with a victim's blood chose Friday to die by firing squad. Stephen Bryant, 44, will be the third ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Lawyers for a man on South Carolina’s death row are trying to stop his execution later this month by arguing the judge who sentenced him to die never got to consider how badly ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina's highest court has refused to stop the execution of a man who killed three people over five days more than 20 years ago while leaving taunting messages for police ...